Good Bye PageRank?

The rumors about Google dropping the whole PageRank thing are spreading around, almost every blog has managed to cover the panic by now and spread some more fear. Will Google REALLY do away with PR? We do not know, and cannot know, but just set your mind at ease… have you paid x,xxx $ just for a PR6 site, only because it’s PR6? You didn’t, right? But many, many, MANY, did! Yes, loads of webmasters paid crazy money for domains alone only because they were PR6 or higher. If you didn’t, why should you worry? They will probably come up with some alternative altagorism, maybe something more SE-based, rather than links-value-based… or maybe something like Alexa, that would measure the hits per page, or… I don’t know, but if you ask me, Google PR update WILL take place sooner or later, and PR will stick around for some time.